The future is officially coming to MLB next year. The league announced on Tuesday that an Automated Ball Strike (ABS) system will be implemented for the 2026 season and provided the rules for how the ...
The ABS challenge system has generated a buzz in spring camps, just like Spencer Jones and Konnor Griffin have with their bats. Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photos: Christian ...
The 2026 MLB season will be the first with the new ABS Challenge System in place. MLB introduces Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System with player-initiated challenges for disputed calls. Players ...
PEORIA, Ariz. — Nick Pivetta pounds his first into his glove after big strikeouts as he stalks off the mound. He’s usually screaming something simultaneously. He leans and ducks and bends in ways that ...
TEMPE, Ariz. — A few times through the middle innings of the Angels’ game on Tuesday, a hitter would disagree with an umpire’s call, and then glare into the ...
Major League Baseball's exhibition season gets underway Friday afternoon. Unlike most years, this round of spring training isn't just serving as a warm-up for the players, but rather will also serve ...
The Mets and all of Major League Baseball will have to navigate a new way to determine balls and strikes in 2026. Starting on Opening Day, the automatic ball and strike (ABS) challenge system will be ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jose Altuve took the first pitch he saw from Hunter Brown in a live batting practice Friday and tapped his helmet, signaling for a challenge under the automatic ball-strike ...
The ABS Challenge System was first utilized in MLB during spring training in 2025. | Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images MLB games will look different in spring ...
FORT MYERS — Chris Sale made it clear he does not plan to utilize the automated ball-strike system (ABS) when it’s implemented in 2026. Beginning this season, pitchers, catchers and batters will be ...
When alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin casually dropped a video showing what she jokingly called her “back abs,” the internet predictably lost its collective mind. The clip shows etched lines and ...